[きゅうれき, kyuureki] (n) Japan's old (lunisolar) calendar; (P) #1792
[だいにっぽんていこく, dainipponteikoku] (n) Empire of Japan (Japan's official name under the Meiji Constitution) #4386
[にほんいち(P);にっぽんいち, nihon'ichi (P); nippon'ichi] (n, adj-no) Japan's best; number one in Japan; (P) #6120
[こじき;ふることふみ, kojiki ; furukotofumi] (n) Records of Ancient Matters (Japan's oldest historical record) #14718
[まんようしゅう, manyoushuu] (n) Manyoushuu (famous 8thC poetry); Japan's oldest anthology of poems #19003
[こくがく, kokugaku] (n) (1) study of (ancient) Japanese literature and culture; (2) (arch) (See 大学・2) provincial school (under Japan's ritsuryo system and pre-Sui Chinese law); (P) #19677
[hyouzame] (n) Proscyllium venustum (species of finback catshark found in Japan's Okinawa Trough)
[きょくじつき, kyokujitsuki] (n) Japan's naval ensign; Japanese flag used on military ships
[ながたちょう, nagatachou] (n) Nagata-chou (Japan's political center; equiv. of Downing Street)
[がいきょう;げきょう, gaikyou ; gekyou] (n) (1) (がいきょう only) foreign religion (from Japan's perspective, esp. Christianity); (2) { Buddh } (esp. げきょう) (ant
[きぎょうたんきけいざいかんそくちょうさ, kigyoutankikeizaikansokuchousa] (n) (See 日銀短観・にちぎんたんかん) the Bank of Japan's quarterly Short-term Economic Survey of Principal Enterprise in Japan; Tankan survey
[よしのじだい, yoshinojidai] (n) (obsc) (See 南北朝時代) Yoshino period (Japan's Northern and Southern Courts period, esp. from the viewpoint of the legitimacy of the Southern Court, 1336-1392 CE)
[よしのちょうじだい, yoshinochoujidai] (n) (obsc) (See 南北朝時代) Yoshino period (Japan's Northern and Southern Courts period, esp. from the viewpoint of the legitimacy of the Southern Court, 1336-1392 CE)
[けんずいし, kenzuishi] (n) Japan's envoy to Sui dynasty China
[こうみんかせいさく, kouminkaseisaku] (n) imperialisation policy (esp. on Korea during Japan's colonial rule) (imperialization); policy of imperialisation
[こうどせいちょうき, koudoseichouki] (n) period of rapid growth (especially Japan's period of rapid economic growth after WWII)
[さんかんば, sankanba] (n) winner of Japan's three main horse races; (P)
[さんじゅうにねんテーゼ, sanjuuninen te-ze] (n) 1932 Theses; Comintern policy documents urging overthrow of Japan's imperial and metayage systems
[さんめいざん, sanmeizan] (n) (abbr) (See 日本三名山) Japan's Three Famous Mountains (Mt. Fuji, Mt. Tate and Mt. Haku)
[さんれいざん, sanreizan] (n) (abbr) (See 日本三霊山・にほんさんれいざん) Japan's Three Holy Mountains (Mt. Fuji, Mt. Tate and Mt. Haku)
[しんぶんりんりこうりょう, shinbunrinrikouryou] (n) Japan's press code (developed in 1946)
[じんむいらい;じんむこのかた, jinmuirai ; jinmukonokata] (adj-no, n-adv, n-t) since the era of the Emperor Jinmu; (first ever) since the dawn of Japan's history; unprecedented
[ぜんこくこうとうがっこうやきゅうせんしゅけんたいかい, zenkokukoutougakkouyakyuusenshukentaikai] (n) Japan's National High School Baseball Tournament (Koshien)
[たいけんにゅうたい, taikennyuutai] (n) boot camp for new recruits (conducted by Japan's Self-Defence Force)
[たいよけん, taiyoken] (n) lending rights (for copyrighted works under Japan's copyright law)
[たんかん, tankan] (n) (abbr) (See 日銀短観・にちぎんたんかん) the Bank of Japan's quarterly Short-term Economic Survey of Principal Enterprise in Japan; Tankan survey
[ちゅうおうしょうちょうさいへん, chuuoushouchousaihen] (n) Japan's 2001 central government restructuring
[てんぽうれき, tenpoureki] (n) Japan's last lunisolar calendar (in use from 1844 to 1872)
[にちぎんたんかん, nichigintankan] (n) (abbr) (See 企業短期経済観測調査・きぎょうたんきけいざいかんそくちょうさ) the Bank of Japan's quarterly Short-term Economic Survey of Principal Enterprise in Japan; Tankan survey
[にほんさんけい, nihonsankei] (n) Japan's three famous sights
[にほんさんめいざん, nihonsanmeizan] (n) (See 三名山) Japan's Three Famous Mountains (Mt. Fuji, Mt. Tate and Mt. Haku)
[にほんさんれいざん, nihonsanreizan] (n) Japan's Three Holy Mountains (Mt. Fuji, Mt. Tate and Mt. Haku)
[にほんゆうすう, nihonyuusuu] (adj-no, n) one of Japan's foremost; leading in Japan
[ひさべつぶらくみん, hisabetsuburakumin] (n) Burakumin (modern-day descendants of Japan's feudal outcast group)
[ひかくさんげんそく, hikakusangensoku] (n) Japan's three antinuclear principles (against producing, possessing and allowing the entry of nuclear weapons into Japanese territory)
[ひにん, hinin] (n) (vulg) one group comprising the lowest rank of Japan's Edo-period caste system (often ex-convicts or vagrants)
[ふほんせん, fuhonsen] (n) (See 和同開珎) Japan's first coinage (dating to 683 CE, but perhaps never in circulation)
[ぶらくみん, burakumin] (n) (sens) (See 被差別部落民) Burakumin (modern-day descendants of Japan's feudal outcast group)
[ぶんめいかいか, bunmeikaika] (n) Japan's Westernization movement during the Meiji era (Westernisation)
[わどうかいちん;わどうかいほ, wadoukaichin ; wadoukaiho] (n) (See 和銅, 富本銭) Japan's first circulated coinage (minted in 708 CE)
[えた, eta] (n) (vulg) (See 被差別部落民) one group comprising the lowest rank of Japan's Edo-period caste system (people whose work usually involved handling human bodies or animal carcasses)